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" WharyvTi do frnd as you get older, and as you get office and responsibility, is that there are more difficulties in the way of your ideals than you ever believed. It hurts you to flnd you have made promises that' can't really be carried out at once — or anything like at once — in practice. To that extent I suppose it is true to say that as we grow older we becomq more conservative in mind. That may look like defeat, but it isn't. Remember Gladstone, suffering the same soft of disappointing hold-up. Read his famous speeeh. I forgefc the year, but what he said in effect was that, in spite of* all, the great social forces mareh oru That's true. Nothing can" stop the forward steps of man to his better destiny. We were once completely communal, and, in the cycle, must return to something like that, though eapitalism, properly applied, may well remain as part of the system," — The late Lord Snowden.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 186, 24 August 1937, Page 6
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